Could state marijuana laws change the world and get the U.S. in trouble?

By Bianca Prieto

Digital First Media

Posted:
04/10/2013 01:16:37 PM MDT

Could state marijuana laws change the world and get the U.S. in trouble?

A detailed photograph of cannabis plants in a 'flower room' inside a medical cannabis cultivation facility in Denver, March 4. (Matthew Staver/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)America has long been one of the world's great crusaders in the war against drugs, pumping billions of tax dollars each year into the fight against illicit substances. Perhaps because it's also one of the world's biggest consumers of them.But the passage of laws allowing recreational use of marijuana in two American states ...